Flashback to 1992, when this IT pilot fish is fresh out of grad school and working for a government contractor.

“I was working on a contract to design and develop a system engineering tool to help the government system engineers design and develop systems, using computer-aided software engineering tools,” says fish.

“Two months into the job, the technical lead did a presentation to the government and our company managers on what we’d done so far.”

But partway into the technical presentation, one of the company’s managers starts asking questions.

The tech lead answers the first set of questions with a clear, cogent explanation. OK, fish thinks, that makes sense.

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